The Ongoing Live & Interactive Weekly Discussion on the Craft & Business of Screenwriting (4x per month) with MICHAEL TABB 

About MICHAEL TABB:

- 20 years in the Writers Guild of America, west

- Released feature films for multiple major studios

- Film Festival "Best Screenplay" Contest Winner

- Co-Creator of the WGA’s Mentor Program

- 15+ year member of the WGA’s Writers Education Committee

- Keynote Speaker of StoryExpo’s THE MASTERS OF STORY screenwriting conference before best-selling screenwriting icons Robert McKee, John Truby and Christopher Vogler

- Guest Speaker, Coast-to-Coast writers' conferences & top film schools

- Screenwriter for Universal Studios, Disney Studios, Released by Sony, and a 3x studio head and producer on the Warner Brothers studio lot

- Professional script consultant

- Professional Reader and Script Analyst

- Paid to write screenplays in 10+ genres.

- Author, Prewriting Your Screenplay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Generating Stories (design instruction: include the provided book’s cover art image in its own space)

- Published by the #1 textbook publishers in the USA and on Earth – Taylor & Francis UK / Routledge Publishing / Focal Press

Endorsements:

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• “With Michael’s tips, writer’s block is a thing of the past!” -- Stan Lee, Comic Book Writer / Creator - Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron-Man, The Hulk, Thor, Falcon, Dr. Strange, Daredevil, Black Panther, The Avengers
• “Michael understands the nuts and bolts of storytelling like no one else.” -- Damon Lindelof, WGA Writer/Producer/Creator -- Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: Into Darkness, World War Z, Prometheus, TV’s Lost, The Watchmen, The Leftovers, Nash Bridges, Crossing Jordon
• Mike delivers a war chest of tools and wisdom in his authoritative but always kind, humble, and warm (often humorous) voice... Knowing Mike personally is a privilege; he's a dynamo of a screenwriter, and having his point of view at your fingertips is a gamechanger for anyone serious about the craft." -- Ricky Roxburgh, Emmy Award-Winning Screenwriter
•  “99% of screenwriters in Los Angeles never know the level of success Michael Tabb has achieved… Michael is one of a select few that I trust to weed out weak material and advise me on the scripts we are sent.” - Steven P. Wegner Producer, Executive Vice President, Development at Alcon Entertainment 
• “He gets character, writes compelling stories and explodes with passion, but his true gift as a screenwriter is to bring you fully into whichever sub-culture and universe, he chooses to create.” - Daniel Schnider, Producing partner to Zoe Saldana, Morgan Freeman, and Dr. Dre at Crucial Films
• “Michael Tabb has thought long, hard, and usefully about how to write screenplays with vision and intent. He understands premise, character, conflict, drama; far more importantly, he can impart wisdom about all of them without condescending or "dumbing down." I know of no better guide to the work of writing that happens before we write.” -- Howard A. Rodman, President, Writers Guild of America (WGA), USC Professor, Multi-Produced Screenwriter, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences member
• “Michael is not only a great screenwriter, but he understands how to explain screenwriting in a way that I never could and in a way that helped me move forward.” -- Roberto Orci, WGA Writer / Creator - Transformers 1 & 2, Star Trek (reboot) 1, 2 & 3, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Legend of Zorro, Mission: Impossible III, TV’s Sleepy Hallow, Hawaii Five-0, Fringe, Alias, Xena, Hercules
• “His original method of generating story, character, and theme will be valuable to both veterans and novices, and should help any writer get past the fear of writers block.” -- Jeff Melvoin, Emmy Award-Winning television writer-producer-showrunner, Co-creator of the WGA’s Showrunner Training Program

Discussions May Include (but not limited to) the Following Topics:

• Introduction to Screenwriting: Going from Zero to Story
• Writing Your Screenplay: Act-by-Act
• Advanced Script Editing: Going from Draft One to Draft Done
• Pitching You & Your Work
• The Writers’ Guild of America
• Building a Show Bible
• The 5 Major Character Purposes
• The Business of Screenwriting
• The Business of Writing for Episodic Formats
• True Stories from the Hollywood Trenches

…And much, much more.

A live, interactive weekly coaching group where you develop professional‑grade scripts and learn how the business really works, guided by 20‑year WGA screenwriter Michael Tabb.  JOIN NOW!